Funakoshi changed the names of many kata and the name of the art
itself (at least on mainland Japan), doing so to get karate accepted by
the Japanese budo organizationDai Nippon Butoku Kai. Funakoshi also gave Japanese names to many of the kata. The five pinan forms became known as heian, the three naihanchi forms became known as tekki, seisan as hangetsu, chinto as gankaku, wanshu as empi,
and so on. These were mostly political changes, rather than changes to
the content of the forms, although Funakoshi did introduce some such
changes. Funakoshi had trained in two of the popular branches of
Okinawan karate of the time, Shorin-ryu and Shorei-ryu. In Japan he was influenced by kendo,
incorporating some ideas about distancing and timing into his style. He
always referred to what he taught as simply karate, but in 1936 he
built the Shotokan dojo in Tokyo and the style he left behind is
usually called Shotokan.
The modernization and systemization of karate in Japan also included the adoption of the white uniform that consisted of the kimono and the dogi keikigi- mostly called just karategi—and colored belt ranks. Both of these innovations were originated and popularized by Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo and one of the men Funakoshi consulted in his efforts to modernize karate.
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